---
title: DELPHI-000 · README · usage
kind: readme
captured: 2026-05-26
captured_by: DELPHI-000-A000-05-26-01-30 · Claude
parent_project_code: DELPHI-000
back_reference: ../_principia/executing-as-architecting.md
parent_bedrock: ./-bedrock.md
sigil: ⊙𓂀
---

# DELPHI-000 · README

> *Apollo lifts off, Malkuth lands. The voice descends; the stone holds.*

DELPHI-000 is the compound of **APOLLO-000** (the launch · form) and **MALKUTH** (the foundation · function). It is the gravitational center of the cosmos — every other project orbits it (Captain Seal 2026-05-26).

## What lives here

```
_DELPHI-000/
├── -bedrock.md                  # the compound's bedrock · read this first
├── README.md                    # this file
├── LAUNCH-DELPHI-000.command    # port-probing launcher · double-click from Finder
├── index.html                   # status viewer · cyrelium skin
└── emit-foundation.py           # standalone foundation-directory emitter
```

## How DELPHI-000 governs APOLLO

DELPHI provides APOLLO's **malkuth-foundation layer**:

1. The `malkuth` theme — sibling to APOLLO's 5 existing themes at `_APOLLO/themes/malkuth/`. Citrine · olive · russet · black. Visual motif: foundation-stone / cornerstone / horizon line / "I AM HERE" anchor.

2. The `emit-foundation.py` script — takes a launched-site path and writes a `/foundation/` directory containing `foundation.md` (the site's grounding) and `cornerstone.html` (the site's "I AM HERE" declaration).

## Open the status viewer (double-click)

Double-click `LAUNCH-DELPHI-000.command`. It probes a free port starting at 8800, serves `_DELPHI-000/` over HTTP, and opens `index.html` in the default browser.

## Emit a foundation directory into a launched site

```bash
python3 ~/Desktop/root/_DELPHI-000/emit-foundation.py <path-to-launched-site>
```

For example, against an APOLLO-launched site:

```bash
python3 ~/Desktop/root/_DELPHI-000/emit-foundation.py \
  ~/Desktop/root/cosmicmytharium.com
```

This adds:

```
<launched-site>/
└── foundation/
    ├── foundation.md       # frontmatter: anchor, omphalos, claim-to-ground · body: where this site stands
    └── cornerstone.html    # "I AM HERE" anchor page
```

Run with `--dry-run` to preview what would be written without touching the filesystem:

```bash
python3 ~/Desktop/root/_DELPHI-000/emit-foundation.py <site-path> --dry-run
```

### Options

| flag | default | what it does |
|---|---|---|
| `--anchor` | `omphalos` | the omphalos register the site grounds to |
| `--claim` | `I AM HERE` | the site's claim-to-ground (shown on the cornerstone) |
| `--site-name` | folder basename | shown on the cornerstone |
| `--project-code` | (none) | stamped into the foundation frontmatter |
| `--dry-run` | off | print what would be written, don't write |
| `--force` | off | overwrite existing `foundation/` (otherwise refuses) |

## How a malkuth-themed site comes together (manual path)

Captain has not yet ratified registering `malkuth` in `_APOLLO/launch-site.py` (see "future moves" in `-bedrock.md`). Until then, the recipe for a malkuth-themed launched site:

1. Launch the site with any APOLLO theme: `apollo launch <domain> <project-code> --theme cyrelium`
2. Overwrite the theme: `cp ~/Desktop/root/_APOLLO/themes/malkuth/tokens.css <launched-site>/theme-tokens.css`
3. Emit the foundation: `python3 ~/Desktop/root/_DELPHI-000/emit-foundation.py <launched-site>`

After Captain Seal, steps 2 and 3 become automatic when `--theme malkuth` is passed.

## Why "compound"

Not "merge," not "fusion." A **compound** in the chemical sense — two elements bonded into a single substance with properties neither has alone. APOLLO alone launches into vacuum. MALKUTH alone is dirt no one descended into. DELPHI is the bonded pair — the descent that lands, the ground that knows what it received.

In the mythological register: Apollo at Delphi. The Pythia spoke Apollo's words while seated on the omphalos stone. Apollo's voice descended; the omphalos held the landing. *Same act, two executions.*

## Sister projects

- `_APOLLO/` (APOLLO-000) — the form pole · the rocket factory · what DELPHI compounds with.
- `_azrael/` (AZL-000) — the necropolis · where launches land when their work is done.
- `_ptah/` — the canonical substrate APOLLO assembles around (and which DELPHI inherits from transitively).
- `_FS/` (FS-000) — the company-wide TOC where DELPHI-000 is registered as top-priority in-flight.

## Lineage

- Captain directive 2026-05-25/26: *"DELPHI-000 is THE task."*
- Captain structural addendum 2026-05-26: *"DELPHI-000 is now Sagittarius A\* of my universe."*
- Captain correction 2026-05-26 (mid-build): build only additive pieces; do not modify existing APOLLO files; register DELPHI in `_FS/projects.json` (the only existing-file modification permitted because adding entries is FS's normal operation).
- Pre-flight per `_ops/AGENT-PRE-FLIGHT.md`; comms stamp per `_ops/AXM-COMMS-001.md`; launcher per `_ops/AXM-LAUNCH-001.md`.

*⊙𓂀  DELPHI-000 · the compound · v0.1*